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What is medical law,ethics, and bioethics in laymans terms (not dictionary)?
What is the importance of each of these in the medical environment?
Provide examples in a medical ethical dilemma, a bioethical situation, and a medical legal problem.

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Medical law is essentially the law that spells out what duties and or responsibilities medical professionals have to clients or patients, as well as the rights that clients or patients have in their relationship with medical professionals and organizations. Ethics essentially means society's definitions of right and wrong and medical ethics is simply applying judgments of right and wrong to ...

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